🔴 SEASON ONE: EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

Writing highlights and images for Season 1 are combined here, as opposed to Season 2, where the slideshows are in a separate file. There is a detailed slideshow for the pilot episode, in two parts, A and B. In addition, there are several slideshows for key scenes (eg “The Sorrento Music Box”) placed throughout.

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🔴 Episode 1:1 Pilot

Blurb: Raymond “Red” Reddington, Number Four on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and underground for 20 years, offers to turn over criminals one by one from “The Blacklist.” He has a single demand: that he speak only with FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, fresh out of Quantico.

Liz: And I’m supposed to believe you?Red: No, of course not! I’m a criminal. Criminals are notorious liars. Everything about me is a lie. But if anyone can give me a second chance, it’s you.♤ The two of us have overcome so much. I mean, look at you. Abandoned by a father who was a career criminal, a mother who died of weakness and shame. And yet here you are, about to make a name for yourself, about to capture Ranko Zamani. I’m gonna make you famous, Lizzy.♤

The Blacklist 1:1 Pilot, Part A – Full Episode Slideshow (9:00 mins)

The Blacklist:1 Pilot, Part B – Full Episode Slideshow (10:00 mins)

🔴 Episode 1:2 The Freelancer

Blurb: Red and Liz travel to Montreal to obtain the name of the next target of an assassin called The Freelancer, who hides his crimes behind apparent accidents.

Red: Tell me my profile.Liz: Why would I do that?Red: You’ve heard the debriefs. You’ve read Ressler’s book reports. I so want to know how you see things.Liz: You’re a loner. You keep your distance. You travel freely through foreign lands. You’re rootless. You’re very comfortable here with your glass of Scotch, but you’re just as comfortable sleeping in a cave with rebels or sharing dinner in some hole-in-the-wall noodle shop. Your closest friends are strangers.♤ You understand that tight bonds can make you vulnerable, so you’re careful not to have any. And that’s why you’re so conflicted about me. You need me. And you hate that about yourself, because it makes you vulnerable.♤

Liz profiles Red.

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Red: [Floriana Campo] preyed on the weak and the innocent while dressed in the wings of a savior. I detested everything about her.Liz: I had no idea. I mean, I just I should have known.Red: We never really know anyone, do we?♤ What are you gonna do, Lizzy? About this situation with Tom? It seems you have two options. Either you turn him in or confront him. Or perhaps there’s a third option. …

🔴 Episode 1:3 Wujing

Blurb: A series of killings by covert Chinese operatives against CIA agents has come to an impasse, leading Wujing, who heads the effort, to reach out to Red for help in locating the next target.

Red: Now, you see, you make it sound like treason. So black and white. It’s not. It’s green.♤

Red: I believe I will always do whatever I feel I have to do to keep you alive.♤

Liz: I held up my end of the deal. Now it’s your turn. You owe me an answer.Red: What’s the question?Liz: Why me?Red: Because of your father.Liz: What does that mean? Did you know my father? Have the two of you met somehow?Red: I wish the answer were as simple as the question seems.♤ But the truth is, the question isn’t simple, either. I share your frustration.Liz: You act like we’re the same. You’re wrong. I have a life, people who care about me. But you – this is all you have.Red: I have you.

🔴 Episode 1:4 The Stewmaker

Blurb: The Stewmaker makes ‘bodies of evidence’ simply disappear, dissolving them in chemicals. The ghoulish scrapbook of photos he keeps is key to hundreds of unsolved cases. A key episode.

Liz: Where are you?Red: Haiti.Liz: Doing what?Red: Keeping up appearances. I’m a criminal. The minute I stop being one, I become quite useless to you. TheLiz: My witness is gone. Lorca’s people contacted you. What did they say, exactly?Red: What I told you is what I know. Beyond that, I really can’t help.Liz: A man’s life is at stake!Red: A man’s life is always at stake and tragically low stakes, at that.♤ I shouldn’t have to remind you I did not offer my services so that I could help you round up your run–of–the–mill drug lord or what have you. You all seem to be doing a perfectly mediocre job of that on your own. I’m after the big game, Lizzy, the ones that matter.

Red (to the Stewmaker): Okay. Shall we get started? A farmer comes home one day to find that everything that gives meaning to his life is gone. Crops are burned, animals slaughtered, bodies and broken pieces of his life strewn about. Everything that he loved, taken from him. His children. One can only imagine the pit of despair, the hours of Job–like lamentations, the burden of existence. He makes a promise to himself in those dark hours.

“It is now he who slaughters” (1:4 Stewmaker)

A life’s work erupts from his knotted mind. Years go by. His suffering becomes complicated. One day he stops. The farmer, who is no longer a farmer sees the wreckage he’s left in his wake. It is now he who burns. It is he who slaughters. And he knows, in his heart, he must pay.♤ Doesn’t he, Stanley?

Liz: No, Red. He couldn’t help it.

Red: Maybe you’re right. Maybe he could change. Maybe he’s not damaged beyond repair. Maybe he could make amends to all those that he’s hurt so terribly.♤ Or maybe not. [dumps him into acid bath.]

🔴 Episode 1:5 The Courier

Blurb: The Courier guarantees the of delivery of high value assets by assuring the deaths of both sender and receiver if either fails in their part of the transaction.

Liz: What is this place?Red: Something of a hideaway. It used to be home to one of the finest American writers who ever lived – Fredrick Hemstead.Liz: Never heard of him.Red: No, you haven’t. Nobody has. Dear Fredrick was waiting tables when we first met. Strange little man, built like a fireplug. He was living here with his mother until she died. Poor Fredrick couldn’t afford to stay on, so I bought the place for him.Liz: Please.Red: Sadly, Fredrick died without ever being published♤, but this place is chock-full of his work Manuscripts, poems, unsent letters, and lots and lots of this.Liz: What is that?Red: No earthly idea. Some sort of distilled alcohol, I think. There’s bottles of the stuff stashed everywhere. Would you like me to pour you a few fingers?

Laurence Dechambou: What do you want?Red: So many things. But right now, I want some information. Where is the NSA agent?Dechambou: I have no idea. He was handed off to the Courier.Red: Yes. And he’s been compromised. Who do you think he’ll blame for that?Dechambou: Not me. The Iranian must have been working with the FBI.Red: Laurence, the Iranian is dead, and you’re next. You know that.Dechambou: I did nothing wrong.Red: The world is rarely a fair place. That’s why it needs people like me.♤ I’ll get you out of the country and guarantee your safety. There’s a private jet awaiting your arrival right now. In exchange, you give me the location where you dropped the kid off last night.Dechambou: He’s worth $20 million.Red: That $20 million is about to die. This is not a negotiation.Dechambou: How dare you? I don’t care who you are. And I’m not going to let you swoop in at the last minute and profit from a mistake made by somebody I hardly know.Red: Oh, he knows you. He knows where you live, where you work, where you play. He knows you better than I do, and I know where that lovely little freckle is.♤ I give you a day and a half before he finds you. Try to be brave.Dechambou: Wait. I will help you.

🔴 Episode 1:6 Gina Zanetakos

Blurb: Gina Zanetakos takes corporate espionage and sabotage to new levels, not stopping at mass murder to put her client’s competitors at a disadvantage.

[ Liz barges in ]Red: Please do come in.Liz: You and I – We’re done.Red: I heard about Tom.Liz: Yeah. Zanetakos confessed.Red: Or took the fall.Liz: The passports? Forged. The money in the box? Traced to an offshore account of yours.♤Red: I can only lead you to the truth. I can’t make you believe it.♤Liz: The truth is that you’re a sick, twisted man. This, your obsession with me – You put Tom’s picture in Zanetakos’ apartment.Red: No.Liz: You hired her to kill Victor Fokin. You set my husband up by having your errand boy lure him to Boston.Red: Is that what Tom said?Liz: I don’t understand why you would do this, any of it! Go to hell.
[ Door closes ]

🔴 Episode 1:7 Frederick Barnes

Blurb: Frederick Barnes loves his son, who is stricken with a rare genetic condition. With research dollars non-existent, Barnes will use the public as his trial subjects. Plus: superbubble baby.

Red; Every cause has more than one effect.♤ Say what you will about Frederick, but someone who’s willing to burn the world down to protect the one person they care about That’s a man I understand.♤Liz: Is that meant to be directed at me?Red: Aren’t you presumptuous?Liz: Is that how you somehow justify your actions, by some misguided notion of protecting me?Red: From whom?Liz: My husband, I suppose. I don’t need your protection.Red: Maybe not.Liz: But I do need you to do this job. I’ve accepted that. And believe it or not, I appreciate what you do for the bureau. And at work, you and I are partners. But that’s where this relationship needs to end at work. I don’t want you in my personal life. I don’t know how to make that clear.Red: You know the problem with drawing lines in the sand? With a breath of air, they disappear.♤ You may not like me. You may not understand how or why I do what I do. But I’m here because you want answers to questions you haven’t even thought of yet.♤ Now, if that doesn’t matter to you, the solution is simple I get in this car and I disappear.

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Red: Strange. I remember it being bigger.Luli: I don’t understand. Of all the places – Marigot, Doha, Florence, Seychelles – why this place?Red: I raised my family in this house.♤Luli: It’s lovely.Red: No, it’s not, but it used to be.♤ (( vision of dark–haired girl 4–6 w super–bubbles in yard ))
Time to go.
[To Dembe:] Did you prepare everything the way I asked?Luli: This place must hold a lot of memories for you.Red: I spend every day trying to forget what happened here.♤ This should help. [House explodes]

🔴 Episode 1:8 General Ludd

Blurb: General Ludd leads a movement of anti-Wall Street protestors. His ultimate goal is to destroy capitalism – or is it? Sam and Red reminisce. Red accesses ViCAP.

Red: I finally had a chance to see her, Sam. There’s a fire inside she got from you.♤ She’s volatile. Unpredictable. Soft then hard then Soft again. Stronger than she knows. You gave her an incredible gift, Sam. Taking her in and loving her as your own.Sam: I need to tell Lizzy… ♤Red: No.Sam: I know what we agreed, but before I go, I have to tell her.Red: I can’t let you do that.Sam: She deserves the truth.Red: Thank you. You will always be her father, Sam. I can only hope to love her and protect her as you have.♤ [smothers him with a pillow]

Blacklist 1:8 Angel of Death – Slideshow (9:53 mins)

Red: Mind if I sit?Tom: No, go right ahead. Visiting someone?Red. A friend. He died today.Tom: Oh.Red: Yourself?

Tom: I, uh, came here to see my father-in-law. But I– I– I didn’t get here in time.Red: Oh, my. I’m terribly sorry. It’s hard to not say goodbye. I have lost so many people. Never seems to get any easier.Tom: I don’t know what I’m gonna say to my wife. I’ve been sitting here for I don’t know how long trying to figure out how to tell her. My wife and her dad, they had something. He took her in when she was and raised her as a single parent. She’s gonna be heartbroken.Red: Yes. It’ll undoubtedly take some time. But I’m sure she’ll be fine. He’ll always be there with her, standing in the shadows to keep her safe, laughing with her in the light, watching through her eyes all those who get close. He’ll always be there. She will be fine.♤Tom: I hope you’re right.Red: I know I am.

Tom talking to Red outside hospital.

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Red: I’m gonna rob you. Because unlike you, I happen to believe in capitalism. I like money. I like the lifestyle it affords me. I like the things that happen when you give it away.♤ What becomes of you and General Ludd once you board that plane is none of my concern though it is worth noting that a true luddite would burn the plane rather than fly in it. But whatever. Your irony. At any rate, have a safe flight. And buckle up. This runway is a bitch.

Red: I’m sorry about your father. How was the funeral? <<>> This is going to be a difficult time. <<>> The best way to keep the memory of your father alive is to talk about him. Tell me some stories.

🔴 Episode 1:9 Anslo Garrick

Blurb: Anslo Garrick seeks revenge against Red for once putting a bullet in his head at point blank range. But greater forces lie in wait, as a mysterious interloper states his concerns. A key two-parter.

Garrick: You trashed a one-of-a-kind partnership.Red; We were never partners, Anslo. You violated whatever trust I had in you. So, naturally, I did what I always did – And beat you. And you did what you always did – Got beaten by me. True to form, Anslo. Why take time to think when it’s so much easier to shoot? This glass was developed by DARPA for secure cover and housing in combat zones. That .45 might as well be a spit straw.

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Red: I knew about Brussels.Ressler: Then why save me?Red: Because that’s what you do when someone is dying in front of you.♤ Allies today, enemies tomorrow. The world is a complex place, further complicated by man’s fickle nature. Years ago, I saved a man’s life under a beautiful old cedar tree in Lebanon. A month later, he tried to kill me in a hotel in Damascus. I understood. Allegiances shift. A month later I broke his neck with a shower caddy. It’s this job today, another one tomorrow. That needle in your arm becomes the one in your neck. It’s just that fast.♤

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Ressler: How did you know about my ex?Red: I know a great many things about you, Donald.Ressler: Right. It’s the core of your business. Information. Misinformation. I don’t know how you did it, Reddington. Forsaking the flag, abandoning your country.Red: We become who we are.♤ We can’t judge a book by its cover. But you can by its first few chapters and, most certainly, by its last.♤Ressler: So, what’s it all about, then, the Blacklist? Revenge?Red: Oh, revenge is too easy and over so quickly. I hope for more than that.

Ressler: We’re not gonna live through this.Red: I think we will.Ressler: How?

“One more night of jazz at the Vanguard.” James Spader wrote much of this monologue. Photo shared by @mcbridesworld on Twitter (12/2/2014)

Red: Have you ever sailed across an ocean, Donald? …Ressler: No.

Red: … On a sailboat surrounded by sea with no land in sight? Without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come? To stand at the helm of your destiny. I want that one more time. I want to be in the Piazza del Campo in Sienna, to feel the surge as … I want another meal in Paris at L’Ambroisie in the Place des Vosges. I want another bottle of wine. And then another.

I want the warmth of a woman in a cool set of sheets. One more night of jazz at the Vanguard.♤ I want to stand on summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can.

Walk on the wall again. Climb the tower. Ride the river. Stare at the frescos. I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book. Most of all, I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy.♤ Give me that. Just one time. That’s why I won’t allow that punk out there to get the best of me, let alone the last of me.

Blacklist 1:11 Mole Hunt: Aram – Slideshow (3:15 mins)

Red: Hello, Aram.
Aram: What – what is this? Where am I?Red: You’re going to do something for me. Account numbers, routing information. You’re going to steal $5 million from that account and place it into one of mine. I expect the transaction to be untraceable.
Aram: What? I can’t.Red: Aram this is a Colt .45 1911. I can strip and reassemble this weapon – in well under two minutes.
Aram: Mr. Reddington, please.Red: Once I have it reassembled, I’m gonna reload the mag, and if at that time, your task remains incomplete, I’m gonna empty that mag into your head.
Aram: That’s really messed up.♤Red: Don’t look so stricken. The first shot will kill you.♤
Aram: Wait. … Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! … I did it. It’s done. Look. It’s untraceable, like you asked.Red: How? Explain.
Aram: I used a ripple exchange to have the Fiat currency converted to e–cash and then into Bitcoin. I ran the whole transaction through a randomized cryptographic extension at the protocol level, then through a two–tiered secure laundry service I know I can trust. No one’s gonna catch you. I promise.Red: A souvenir. You’re innocent.
Aram: I am? I mean, I am! Wait. Of what?♤Red: The team that broke into the black site was paid through Gestalten Landesbank. My contact there traced a $250,000 payment to a covert account belonging to Louis Coogan.
Aram: Louis who?Red: It’s an alias, for you. Someone is attempting to implicate you as a mole by creating a money trail that leads directly to you. You’re obviously far too clever to have accepted payment that was so easily traceable.
Aram: You’re not gonna kill me.Red: No. I’m going to find somebody else, and I’m going to kill them.♤

🔴 Episode 1:13 The Cyprus Agency

Blurb: The Cyprus Adoption Agency promises to deliver the perfect newborn to would-be parents. But no records can be found of where or how the agency obtains the newborns. Plus: Red finds the mole.

[ ♫ Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown” plays ] Sundown, you better take care
if I find you been creeping ’round my back stairs.
She’s been looking like a queen in a sai– [ Click ]

Diane Fowler (DOJ): What the hell are you doing in my house? Red: I know, Diane. Diane: What? Red: You signed a directive ordering a mandatory security upgrade at the post office. It’s how you got the blueprints into enemy hands. You’re the dirty rat, Diane. Diane: I’m calling the police. Red: No, you’re not. Diane: You stupid son of a bitch. Red: Sit your ass down. Diane: I signed that directive for your protection. Red: [ Chuckles ] You remind me of this woman I knew in Lisbon. Strange old bird. Diane: If you think Fitch or any of his people are going to let you get away with this, you’re more arrogant than I thought. We came into the post office to make a point. If you come after me, if you so much as lay a finger on me – Red: You talk too much. [ shoots her ]

Diane: [ Gasps ] You can’t shoot me! Red: Why not? You’re not one of the good guys. And, as of today, you’re utterly worthless to the bad guys.♤ Fitch and I have an agreement. He goes about his business. I go about mine. You and I don’t have an agreement. Diane: I know the truth, Red, about that night – about what happened to your family.♤ Do you want to know the truth? Red: More than anything in the world.♤ But if you know the truth, Diane, then somebody else does, too. [ shoots her three or four more times ]
[ clicks phonograph back on ]

Blacklist 1:13 Diane Fowler – Slideshow (8:29 mins)

♫ I can see her lying back in her satin dress
in a room where you do what you don’t confess
Sundown, you better take care
if I find you been creeping ’round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
if I find you been creeping ’round my back stairs

I can picture every move that a man could make
getting lost in her lovin’ is your first mistake
Sundown, you better take care
if I find you been creeping ’round my back stairs

Sometimes I think it’s a sin – when I feel like I’m winning
when I’m losing again …

🔴 Episode 1:14 Madeline Pratt

Blurb: A socialite steals a Syrian antiquity in which the identities of Russian spies and/or the locations of Cold War era nuclear bombs may be hidden. Plus, ‘Have yourself a bloody, bloody Christmas.’

“You still wear the hell out of a tux.”

Red: What are you doing here, Madeline?Madeline: What are you doing here, Red? Red: I came to watch you. Madeline: Thank you. You still wear the hell out of a tux. Red: My plane is–– We could be in Tegucigalpa by breakfast. Madeline: The girl–– tell me about her. Red: What would you like to know? Madeline: How did you pick her? Red: Fate. Madeline: She’s a little young for you. Red: You think? Madeline: Last summer, what happened in Florence? What happened to you? You left me alone. I deserve an explanation. Red: I was serious about Tegucigalpa. What do you think? Right now. Madeline: What happened in Florence?

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Red: I ran out of gas.Pratt: Huh?Red: I was so excited to get home, I didn’t even bother to look. My head was just – I ran out of gas.Pratt; What are you talking about?

Red: It was Christmas Eve. I pulled off to the side of the road. Seemed like it’d been snowing for days. No traffic. No cars to come help. Just me and a car full of gifts. It was more than 20 years ago. I must have walked four miles five, maybe. It was so still. Just cold and white. The whole time, all I could think about was them in our house. The warm light in the windows, the smoke from the chimney. The sound of my daughter at the piano. The smell of the tree and the fire, oyster stew on the stove. I was so upset to think that I’d ruined Christmas for them, being late, leaving the gifts in the car.

But the closer I got, the more I realized how funny the whole thing was, how much they’d love the story, daddy running out of gas, how every Christmas they’d get such joy from telling that story at my expense.

And then, finally I got there. I walked I walked through the door. And there was just blood. All I saw was blood. All there was was blood.♤

I can I can still s–smell the nape of her neck, feel her little fingers on my cheek her whisper in my ear.

🔴 Episode 1:15 The Judge

Blurb: When the wheels of the justice system fail to deliver justice, what recourse do the victims or those falsely condemned have? The Judge offers a final appeal.

Waiter: – Ma’am?Jolene: Uh, Maker’s.Tom: She’s having an affair with Mr. Whitney.Jolene: Have you talked to him about it?Tom: Yeah, I have. Believe me, it’s not good, especially during parent–teacher conferencesJolene: Ohh! – because her husband has no clue.Tom: But, you know, that’s the job. I mean, teachers get to know every part of their students’ lives, their families. Some of it you just have to keep secret.Jolene: Are you good at that?Tom: At what?Jolene: Keeping secrets. Where’s your wife?Tom: Sh– she couldn’t come.Jolene: Did you invite her?Tom: I thought – I thought you had a fiancé.Jolene: Oh, I do. We haven’t picked a date yet. I’d invite you to the wedding, but I don’t think he’d like you.Tom: Why is that?Jolene: Isn’t it obvious? You here buying me drinks while your wife’s back home?Tom: I haven’t done anything wrong.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don’t take him just because you can
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

[ Door lock beeps ]Jolene: Hey.Tom: Hey.Jolene: I’m glad you came.Tom: I’m sorry. I can’t. That’s why I came here, to tell you that I can’t do this because I love my wife.Jolene: Wrong answer! Elizabeth Keen is not your wife, she’s your target!♤Tom: She’s my what? What is this? Did they send you? Really? To what? Test me? [ Chuckles ] I told you that I was in love with her because that is exactly what I am supposed to be. That.is.my.job.

🔴 Episode 1:16 Mako Tanida

Blurb: Mako Tanida seeks revenge against Agent Donald Ressler and a group of his colleagues stemming from an operation in Japan years earlier that killed his brother. A young ballerina dances Swan Lake. A key episode.

Red: Searching in the desert for a drop of vengeance to slake an unquenchable thirst is a lonely walk, my friend.♤Ressler: Tanida’s close. I can burn the whole neighborhood down, or you can tell me where he is.Red: Donald, I understand how you feel. Beneath the iron-and-rust exterior beats the heart of a man swimming in immeasurable grief. I am truly sorry about Audrey. There are few that understand love and loss more than I.Ressler: Well, I’m glad you understand. Where is he?Red: Let me tell you something that someone much wiser than I told me at a similar point in my life. Go home. Turn back from this and go home. It may seem like the hardest thing in the world, but it is profoundly easier than what you’re contemplating.Ressler: I’m not turning back.Red: That’s pretty much what I said.

“Agent Ressler, once you cross over, there are things in the darkness…”

Red: In your dust–up with Tanida, were there any survivors?Ressler: Yes.Red: Injuries?Ressler: Yeah. Why?Red: There’s a house in Columbia Heights doubles as an underground hospital. May be worth a visit.

Red: Agent Ressler. Once you cross over, there are things in the darkness that can keep your heart from ever feeling the light again.♤Ressler: All I feel is hate.Red: Good. You’re gonna need it.

[♫ music] Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah well, it’s too long living in the same old lie

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[♫ music] Strange face with your eyes so pale
and sincere underneath,
you know well you have nothing to fear
for the dreams that came to you
when you were young
told of a life where spring has sprung
you would seem so frail
in the cold of the night
when the armies of emotion
go out to fight

Dancer: He’s one of our biggest donors. Never comes to any other performance. Same show on the same day every year. They say his daughter was in the show years ago.♤Instructor: Ladies, you’re paid to dance, not to gossip.

[♫ music] You sail to the sky
Lend a hand and lift me to your place in the cloud

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“Donald, I want you to know that I do understand how you feel.”

– From Mr. Reddington

“There is nothing that can take the pain away.
But eventually, you will find a way to live with it.
There will be nightmares.
And every day, when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about.
Until one day It will be the second thing.”

🔴 Episode 1:17 Ivan

Blurb: A famous hacker, Ivan, is blamed for gaining access to a super-secret government project which allows a single interface to disable an entire city. But Ivan says it’s not him. Then, who? Plus, the Sorrento music box.

Red: I have never lied to you.

Blacklist 1:17 Sorrento Music Box – Slideshow (8:01 mins)

Liz: What’s this?Red: It’s a 1940s Sorrento music box.Liz: I know this song. When I was a little girl, I had these terrible nightmares. I remembered flashes of – of fire and smoke. God, so much smoke. My dad would lay in bed with me and hold me in his arms and hum that song. He’d tell me I was safe – that everything was gonna be okay. You spent days building that damn thing. You knew about the song. My father.♤ You knew I’d find out the truth. And you wanted me to know that everything is going to be okay.

🔴 Episode 1:18 Milton Bobbit

Blurb: A rash of suicide/murder cases leads the team to Milton Bobbit, horribly maimed, addicted and terminally ill as the result of a botched clinical trial.

Liz: What do you know about Tom?Red: Lizzy, I’m not sure if I can shed any –Liz: No! We’re not doing that. Not today. You have been threatening to tell me the truth about my husband since the day we met, and I’m ready to listen. What do you know?Red: Little more than you. Several years ago, it came to my attention that somebody was meddling in my business. To protect myself and my interests, I inventoried my vulnerabilities.Liz: Me.Red: Among others. Lizzy, I’ve been monitoring Tom since he entered your life. About a year ago, I discovered that he had purchased three passports from a trusted forger I use in Warsaw.Liz. That’s it? He bought passports? My husband chose me. He inserted himself into my life because of you.Red: I can only assume that’s the case.Liz: Why? How are we connected?Red: That is just a distraction.Liz. No, that is all that matters! This is my life! Tell me!Red: Right now, the only thing that matters is the immediate threat– your husband– finding out who he is and who he works for. The rest will come. I promise you.

🔴 Episode 1:19 Pavlovich

Blurb: The Pavlovich Brothers, a sabotage and extraction team, want to intercept a scientist en route to the U.S. who knows secrets about China’s germ warfare program, – so what does Red want with them? Plus, Liz and Tom have at it.

Liz: How is this all gonna end? Red: This is an end. And then something new will begin.♤ You deserve the best in life, Lizzy. I know that sounds odd coming from a man who has brought you some of the worst, but it’s the reason why Tom had to work so hard to be that for you. To be kind, to be thoughtful, make you laugh, to make you love him. Because you deserve that. And it will come.

🔴 Episode 1:20 The Kingmaker

Blurb: The Kingmaker pulls out all the stops when it comes to launching political careers. All aspiring office-seekers have to do is surrender their conscience.

Red: “Your little ‘Alliance’ will lose” (1:20 Kingmaker)

Red (to Alan Fitch): You know me considerably better than either of us would like to admit. I will win this war. This enemy of mine will lose. Even with you and your shortsighted brethren watching safely from a distant hill. Why? Because as bad as you may think I am, as far as you think I’m willing to go to protect that which I hold most dear, you can’t possibly fathom how deep that well of mine truly goes.♤ You think you’ve come here simply to say that you can’t help me, but all you’ve done is ensure that when this is all over, I won’t be able to help you. When the day inevitably comes that I settle up with your little Alliance, it will be you, Alan, alone in the dark.

༺ ♤ ༻

Liz: Were you in the hospital room when he died? Did you kill my father? Did you kill him?Red: Yes.Liz: I was right. [ voice breaking ] There was something he wanted to tell me before he died, and you didn’t want me to know.Red: It’s not quite that simple.Liz: Go to hell.Red: I don’t expect you to understand.Liz: Understand?! How could I possibly understand when you take someone I love away from me and then try to justify it?!

Red confesses.

Red: Listen to me. I’ve been friends with Sam for all of yours and most of my life. He was dying. Every part of his body was failing. He was impatient for it to end. He’d asked to be disconnected from all the machines. He was in pain and suffering. And he wasn’t thinking clearly. If he were, he would never have chosen to tell you any of it. It wasn’t his choice to make. We said goodbye and I put him out of his misery.Liz: We’re done. I’m done. This ends right now. … God, you’re a monster.

🔴 Episode 1:21 Berlin

Blurb: People are being infected with a deadly virus so the antidote can be used to blackmail them. And the only doctor who can help is in an insane asylum.

Liz: Oh, my God. It’s all connected.♤Ressler: What is?Liz: All of it, everything the blacklist. We’ve been looking at it all wrong. We see these cases Reddington gives us as individual, as if they’re disconnected, but what if they’re not random? What is there’s a larger pattern to all of it?:
Reddington got a number from Wujing, a code that he entered into ViCAP after helping us stop General Ludd in order to identify Lucy Brooks, also known as Jolene Parker, who he then tracked down using The Alchemist‘s client list. They’re connected. Maybe not all, but some. Gina Zanetakos, the courier. I believe they all trace back to one entity.Cooper: In Berlin.Ressler: So Reddington’s using us to clear the table, wipe out the competition.Liz:That’s what I thought. That’s what we’re trained to think. But that’s not how he thinks. Look at this like he would, like a criminal. Reddington said he’s bracing for war. And in a war, you need allies. Put yourself in his position. It’s not just the FBI who’s after him. What if there’s someone else, someone he can’t stop alone? What better way for a criminal to turn the tables on someone than to get the FBI on his side? Our resources and our protection not to expand his empire, but simply to survive.Aram:Why wouldn’t he just tell us who’s after him?Ressler:Because he doesn’t know.Liz: Sanders said there’s an impending apocalypse, and Vogel’s words to us? “He’s coming”? Who’s coming? Berlin. It’s not a place. It’s a person. And that person is coming for Red today.

⊰ ♤ ⊱

Liz: I know about Berlin – that he’s a person, that he’s coming for you. Red, the FBI is coming for you.Red: They’re already here, Lizzy. What are they gonna do to me that hasn’t been done before? Kill me? None of it is worse than losing you. Please excuse the gun. I’d hate for them to think we’re in cahoots.Liz: You don’t always get to have your way. You don’t get out of this.
FBI: ⋙ Drop the weapon now! ⋘Liz: There’s no way you’re out of here!
⋙ You’re surrounded! ⋘Red: You should go.Liz: If this is another one of your games to try to trick me into forgiving you for Sam …
⋙ Put the weapon down! ⋘Liz: … for what you’ve done. You have ruined my life. And I swear to God, right now, I want to kill you. But there are answers I need, and I can’t get them without you.Red: And I can’t get them without you. So I guess we’re stuck with each other.
⋘⋙Red: I was once on the island of Ko Ri, free-diving in the Andaman Sea. I felt terribly ill stung by a lionfish. I was dehydrated, in excruciating pain. I had lost all sense of time and place. I was completely disoriented. But I knew I was dying, so I readied myself for it. And in that moment, at death’s door, I looked up, and standing over me in the brightness was this landless Moken sea gypsy just standing there, smiling. She and her tribe nursed me back to health, good as new. And when I left the island she kissed me. It was like a burst of sunlight on my cheek. It was – It made nearly dying well worth it. That’s how I feel now.

🔴 Episode 1:22 Berlin – Conclusion

Blurb: Red’s sworn enemy Berlin is on American soil and finally reveals why he seeks revenge. Tom and Red square off – with Liz in the middle. The Season Finale.

Red: [points his gun away from Tom] Tom, put the gun down before you do something you’ll deeply regret. I’m the one you want. Make the right choice, Tom. But make it fast. Because when I get over there, I’m gonna take that gun away from you. [Tom shoots at Red, nicking his shoulder, Red flinches. Red approaches Tom, is about to shoot him.]

Blacklist 1:22 Hostages – Slideshow (10:05 mins)

Red: The way Sam told the story was that one night, an old friend showed up at his door scared. The friend told Sam he was leaving town, that he was in danger and that he needed someone to care for a little girl that her father had died that night in a fire. So Sam took the little girl in, and he raised her as his own always sheltering her from the truth about her biological father.Liz: And that’s why you killed him.Red: I killed Sam because he was in pain and he wanted to die and because I had to protect you from the truth.♤Liz: What truth? The only memory I have of my real father is from the night of the fire. I remember him pulling me out of the flames saving me.Red: Yes. And knowing his identity would put you in grave danger.
Liz: Why? Because he’s a fugitive on the “Most Wanted” list?Red: I loved Sam, Lizzy. Taking his life was of all the difficult things that I’ve done that may may be the most. But I did it to keep you from learning the name of your real father, to protect you.♤ And you must understand – having done that, I’m certainly not going to tell you who he was now.

Blacklist 1:22 “Stay with Me” – Slideshow (5:12 mins)

Lizzy, there’s something I want you to understand about your father Sam. That night when he took you in – without hesitation – Sam made a difficult choice that changed the course of his life. And that’s where you find yourself now. You can turn away and run from it. You can hide from it. And if you choose to do that, I’ll fly away. Or you can face it and confront it engage it. And maybe – maybe you prevail and rise above it… I understand. I’ll be on a plane tonight…

[♫ Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” plays, music]

♫ Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Oh I’m a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they’ve got none

Stay with me…
Let’s just breathe…

♫ Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world to make me bleed

Stay with me
You’re all I see…

♫ Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me

As I come clean…
I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would save, oh no

Liz returns. She has decided to stay.

♫ Nothing you would take
Everything you gave…

♫ Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah…

♫ Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side…

Liz: Tom told me something right before he died.Red: What was that?

♫ did I say that I need you?

Liz: “Your father’s alive.” ♤Red: Lizzy, look at me.

♫ did I say that I want you?

Red: I’m telling you, with no uncertainty, your father is dead. He died in that fire.

♫ I’m a fool, you see no one knows this more than me

Liz: That man, Berlin, he’s out there.Red: Yes.

Liz: And we’ll find him.

♫ Nothing you would take
everything you gave, oh
hold me till I die
meet you on the other side…

[❗Later, Red is in his room. He looks at the photo he got from the Stewmaker’s book ➔ It is the same photo that is in Berlin’s locket. He unbuttons his shirt to check the fresh bullet wound on his shoulder, pulls off the bandage. He lowers his shirt further ➔ to reveal his back covered with hideous burn scars ]

🔴 Supplement: Episode 1:1 Pilot – TWEETS w Links to Photos

Chronological

🐣 This is the full set of my edited screenshots for The Blacklist pilot (Episode 1:1) that I posted to Twitter. Unfortunately, Twitter darkens & dulls images. If you would like originals, please email me at LizzieB90@yahoo.com of flag me on Twitter @BlacklistDCd.